Bring Him Home (Hugh Jackman) | Les Misérables (2012) | TUNE
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- Hugh Jackman gives an emotional performance of Bring Him Home from Les Miserables. Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) joins the revolt in Paris in order to protect Marius (Eddie Redmayne) whom his daughter, Cosette (Amanda Seyfried), is in love with.
What is Les Misérables (2012) about?
An all star cast (Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Samantha Barks) comes together in this big screen adaptation of the West End and Broadway hit show. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
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I love the vibrato in his voice when he sings "If I die"
someone in the barecade: Shut up, we're trying to sleep
Exactly what I thought 😂 It seemed like such a random scene. Everybody was sleeping. They weren’t even in danger at that moment and he just kept singing they shouldn’t kill him. No one tried to.
At least in most other versions Valjean isn’t belting the entire song unlike Hugh Jackman (nothing against him).
Jackman and Redmayne were so good in this.
Have to be honest here. Have any of these commenters raving here about High Jackman''s version ever heard ANY of the Les Miz leads singing this?
As a Hugh Jackman fan, I have to agree. Colm Wilkinson‘s version especially brings me to tears every time I hear it. I’ve never heard any vocalist control their voice so perfectly with such softness and tenderness, without losing tone and _volume._
I doubt anything can compare to it.
Yeah I agree, he definitley isn't the best of all Jean Valjeans. I think the film adaptaion is pretty overrated, it's got too much talking singing, mostly with Hugh Jackman. Loved Eddie Rdmayne's performance with 'Empty Chairs At Empty Tables' though.
I didn't really like this performance with this song. He voice sounds tired, especially at the start, I didn't real feel the emotion all that much with it.
Also some of the lines he made talking-singing lines like I mentioned before so you don't get the satisfaction of whatt you're used to with some of the really beautifully sung lines, like here 1:56 with "He is only a boy"
I have little choice but to agree that Hugh Jackman wasn't exactly the best Valjean - I have described him in the role as mediocre and that I will stick with! I haven't been exactly raving about it! But the two best Valjeans - I think, is Colm Wilkinson and Alfie Bow! Both these gentlemen have reduced me almost to tears in the song 'Bring him Home ' of Les Miserables in combination with each other or with others ! I can't say the same however. For Hugh Jackman! Passable is and does!
Alfie Boe
@@Nerd-tu2to I can't agree with you! Not entirely. Colm Wilkinson - being the first - ValJean was the best and I will put Alfie Boe into a close and firm second! You're still right on that but I won't be entering into a debate about it! I agree with you on Alfie Boe, to a degree! But first is first, I am afraid! And Colm got it - first time going!
Half speed? I'm in tears! Oh God! Make it stop!!
i love hugh jackman but if you ever need a good laugh put this in 0.5 speed. it will not disappoint.
You're so right lol
A very emotional drunk outside the boozer after kick out time 😂
You sir/ma'am, are very mean! 😂😂😂😂😂
Why did I have to follow instructions 😂😂😂
Yeah, Hugh has a great voice, but this was... bad.
I didn't like this at first, but it grew on me. It became my favourite, you feel such sadness and tiredness in the way he sings, just felt natural.
Put it on 0.25 speed. Tiredness and sadness indeed.
Listen to Colm Wilkinson if you want a good version.
The first and only time I've seen my father cry was in the theater during this song. He said that as a father with a daughter (me) who will eventually be taken away by another man who will care for him, it was hard to listen to.
Absolutely, sister! (Edited from “brother.”)
Forgive me, sister. Your father is officially my brother (that’s from a father of two daughters and three sons).
This is supposed to be sung in falsetto 😢😢 this is full belt. Its supposed to be a quiet moment for val jean, not a loud song in any way. There was no texture it felt like
This is pretty hard to sing in falsetto. This also certainly wasn’t full belt everywhere.
If you watch only one part is not good but if you watch the movie straight you feel the emotion
agreed
I agree here too, in the movie itself it made me cry but here, void of context (especially after seeing it on West End in London) it feels a bit off and like he should have more nuance in his voice
Everyone..stop critisizing. Everybody prays differently. And if this baritone was asked to sing tenor, there must have been a reason. The words are what moves the soul. The debate can go on and on. I love Alfie Bo too, phenomial! But if all these actors were doing actual live singing in the movie, kudos to them. Give artistic credit and talent to their performances. I loved this movie.
I like how his voice is not perfect - lends more to a believable character - tired and worn out from years of hardship....the shake in his voice that almost cuts out;
For a movie i like it - For stage, it's impossible to beat Alfie Bowe
Agreed!
ramin karimloo*cough*cough*
ahem colm
Robert Marien both in French and English.
@@tanyaretour5715 yEs!!!
What an incredible voice. Simply stunning. Hugh Jackman is sensational x
say this with my grandma and her friends. She cried at this movie through and through. Some years later, aftet readinf the actual novel theres only a few songs that DONT make me cry like them. This song makes me cry because i lost someone younget than me i wished i could have saved but couldnt
At the end I couldn't sleep due to how hurt my eyes were from crying
Hugh Jackman always makes me cry with this song
I love to play this a .5 speed and blast it.
ME TOO
Thought slowing it to .05 would make it sound cool because you said to do it.
Broke out laughing in the first 3 seconds.
put it on 0.25x speed if you want a good laugh
@Scott Miller I think he was better before even. Just listen to his performance of "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" from Oklahoma. There's a version that was posted to youtube back in 2011. He even won a Tony for his lead role in a The Boy from Oz in 2004. I think its a combination of Valjean being a difficult part for his range AND that he was in horrible condition for singing throughout production.
Hooper, the director, told him that he didn't want people to recognize Hugh, and if they did recognize him, he wanted them to think Hugh was sick. That lead to him being essentially "on prison rations" (direct quote from Hooper) and on "water restriction". You mentioned singing yourself, so I assume you know the importance of hydration to sing well. Add that on to doing take after take after take... of course he sounds exhausted.
Dear god x)
0.5 is better
THANK YOU FOR THIS I AM CACKLING
😂😂😂😂
Hugh sang one of the most powerful songs in his own way. Do not compare Hugh to Colm, as they sang the same song in two different forms of Les Mis. Both made it their song.
I don't need to compare Hugh to Colm to point out the flaws with this performance. its a pity how badly this turned out with how well Hugh can sing.
dont you mean alfie boe
@@rogerradue2352 Alfie is even more unfair than Colm to compare Hugh to. Hugh's biggest weakness in this film overall is how weak his singing is (look in to the physical condition he was in for this film if you want to be horrified). Comparing him to Alfie, one of the most powerful performers for the role, is just unfair.
As a side not, just in case this is a case of you not being aware, Colm Wilkinson is the original Jean Valjean. Bring Him Home was written with him specifically in mind. He's viewed by most as the definitive Valjean. This isn't to take anything away from Alfie Boe who picked the part up some decades later and did a fantastic job, but Colm is still the definitive Valjean.
@@SquallLionhart409 sorry i didnt see his singing as weak......lot of his other songs he sounded more confident in singing that bring him home
@@rogerradue2352 To try to clarify, his singing VOICE is weak. I missed a word there. Listen for how he sustains notes. Its very common for him to just not seem to have enough breath support for what he wants to do, likely stemming from essentially being on "prison rations" (quoting the director) and water restriction while trying to sing fully through these songs for long sessions on set. (Seriously, the way they handled the music in this musical movie is dreadful. There's a reason pros don't sing for 10 hour days.)
The weakness also isn't necessarily a question of volume. Gently placing each note for the last "Bring Him Home" is harder than blasting it out like Hugh does here.
tom hooper: ok hugh for this scene i want valjean to sound like a man with a deviated septum rapidly driving over speedbumps
hugh: say no more
“make sure you don’t drink any water for 68 hours too!!🫶”
Its the funniest thing ever watching this slow 😭😭
This is the most realistic version of the song, what it was meant to portray. By making it just a little bit too high it brings out the strain on Jean Valjean over his lifetime, his tiredness, despondence. It is not pretty, like all the other versions sung with true high tenors.
he's missing he entire point of the song though. The real version is quiet, its personal, not belted out for the world to hear
@@sweetpeaz2101 thank you! There's no buildup in this performance, no subtlety... He starts belting and goes on belting and ends belting... Don't even get me started on that vibrato
@@bestof1506 I like Jackman but I have tio agree. I blame Hooper who told him to do it this way for some reason. BHH is NOT supposed to be a loud, shouted song. It's a quiet prayer. WHY in the world Hooper did it this way I have no idea. It's completely the opposite of the way it's meant to be sung and Jackman sounds terrible doing it, like he's straining way too much trying to hit the notes.
Is there any part Hugh Jackman can’t play with excellence? Everything I’ve ever seen him in he did a great job.
yes, there is! this one. this is awful. go watch les mis.
Yes, Jean Valjean. An utter disgrace
Exactly WHAT is that first word he sings? The first line is meant to be "God on high". But whatever Hugh Jackman is singing sounds astonishingly like a four-letter epithet that rhymes loosely with "aunt". 🤣 And I'm Australian so this is not an accent thing.
I'm not commenting on the quality or otherwise of his singing. This is one of the most difficult songs in the repertoire - it's meant for a musical theatre tenor, but Hugh Jackman is really a baritone. So it's set really high for him. Still, he didn't get the key moved down for him, and he sang it as well as I'd expect from a baritone who's not a professional singer full time.
And he acted the pants off it!
I'm also wondering if the choice not to use any falsetto was a stylistic choice by the director or musical director. Given that he doesn't use falsetto, it's good Hugh Jackman can get up there at all without belting.
ngl it sounds like it would hurt.
Ik that some people like how he belted it, but it’s just- that contradicts the entire orchestration. It starts extremely delicate and continues with minimal instruments. It’s not until he starts with, “he’s like the son I might have known” that the orchestra begins to build. The music that is meant to lend to his vocal performance, but he’s ignoring it
He is anguished, not singing an aria
@@catherinepruettpianist4971 well, an aria is a piece for one lead melody or voice that is contained in itself…so by those standards it is an aria (unless my definition is wrong which it might be).
BUT, I get what you’re saying about the anguish. However, the music was written with intention. It builds to a belt, so we still get that loud power, that desperate anguish. But it begins tentatively, this is his final request to god. He’s asked so much of this higher power throughout the show and now he accepts that he will soon be dead, and gently he asks to trade his life, before the emotion is too strong and he builds into “the summers die, one by one” before his voice is softened by the realization that he is now the summer, fading away as he’s seen it do so often, “and I am old, and will be gone”
The dynamics and orchestration directly correlate with the words
(Sorry, I don’t mean to word vomit at you, I just love talking about music)
@@E-eb6ic just like some classical musicians take some creative liberties with their interpretations of classical pieces, singers can do the same with musicals imo. There’s not really a right or wrong way to sing. Just different interpretations of the piece.
exactly!!!
U know for the movie they sang without music and they made the score to go with how they sang
Definitely one of my favorite songs of Les mis.
Try it at 1.25 x speed..... the vibrato is then PERFECT.
This movie makes me so sad. There are great acting performances, but a lot of the musical moments were made under such terrible circumstances that they couldn't have made filming this very conducive to singing well.
Put this song on half speed (0.5)
Thank me later...
God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there
He is young
He's afraid
Let him rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.
He's like the son I might have known
If God had granted me a son.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.
Bring him peace
Bring him joy
He is young
He is only a boy
You can take
You can give
Let him be
Let him live
If I die
Let me die
Let him live
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.
God can hear any voice!
He hears all with equal love x
@@scamwitness6594 doesn't mean he's always willing to actually listen. There's a difference between hearing and listening, and he never listens. Ever.
He listens; he just doesn’t always answer in ways we can hear.
I listened to the comments and played on 0.5 speed. Not only did I laugh, I learned how to virbrato.
The more a singer has a sense of their own ability to both plead and demand God resuce the boy from death, based on their aged place in life the more compelling and convincing is this song. Hugh NAILS THIS
This just popped into my head randomly
.5 speed is an EXPERIENCE
Hugh Jackman can sing and is an amazing actor but I feel this movie would have been better if they brought in Alfie Boe as JVJ. This song should be sung with raw emotion and has the power to bring an audience to tears and I feel Alfie is the best at conveying the tenderness of this song
“Your work… in Le Mez… WHAT A TRIUMPH!”
Wolverine: Hugh’s Listening…🤔🤔🤔
Thanks to this movie, millions can access opera normally out of reach.
It was a powerful production.
Awesomeness! Love him ❤️ and the song ...
.5 speed be like “bRIiIiiInngg hIiIiiiIiIM HoOOooOOoommMee”
bring him homeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏
Bring all the hostages home now.
First time watching Hugh sing this, bit sad, he suited The Greatest Showman much better than this. Colm and Alfie just imprint this song in the head
You can’t compare them. They all made the song their own.
British lyrics
Divine man on drugs
Listen to my request
Inside of my neccesities
You have everytime been located there
He is less than 40 years old
He is petrified
Let him lose consciousness for some time
Land above the clouds opposite of curse
Nah I'm too lazy
Hubba Hubba!🌹 🇫🇷🍀
Maybe not the chops as some of the other terrific singers but definitely a more gifted actor.
ColmMeany will always be my favorite Jean Valjean.
What a tune
"he is only a boy" is not even sung, but spoken in a very rushed way, like it's a toss-away line. ValJean's crimes were stealing a loaf of bread & breaking parole. Jackman's crime was murdering the melodies of some of the best musical theater songs ever written.
Okay but also play it at 1.5x
what is UP with this direction? Did they just tell him to wander around and periodically look confused?
Burst out laughing when I watched this in the cinema. Jackman wandering aimlessly around the barricade in the middle of the night, surrounded by sleeping people, belting at the top of his lungs without waking a single one of them up
Someone's over thinking this...🙄
@@Adrianics4k I know it's silly right? At some points in this movie characters actually break out in song unanimously as if they all rehearsed and know the same lines.
Very unrealistic, something like this would never happen in real life.
0/10 MOVIE
@@jedw8753 that's why I don't like musicals, it's fake, and I didn't watch the movie. In real life we don't break out into song on the highs and lows of life. Recently heard some other guy sing this and looked it up. It is beautiful. But I'd prefer hearing it sung by someone else.
Serious! Was thinking the same thing. It doesn’t make any sense to me. They weren’t even in danger at the moment.
I guess the giant eye in the background is supposed to be God watching from above.
🤦 Shouldn't have taken me so long to notice that. It's cool.
Anthony Warlow is my favourite..
I did this at 2.0x and 0.5x and had a good laugh (not doing this to mock, I know he has a good singing voice and what they put him through I just find it funny at those speeds and acknowledge that it probably sounds like this at 0.5x speed for many performers because of the difficulty of the song)
Only one man can sing that song c t w
Alfie is pretty surreal
Why am I waiting for his adamantium claws to come out? 🤔 hmmmm....
it's a good act very painful
You guys are talking about his volume like it's the issue with this performance lmao. It's the placement in his voice. Horrendous.
I agree with your comment on the placement, but volume is a big issue. he's missing he entire point of the song. The real version is quiet, its personal, not belted out for the world to hear
@@sweetpeaz2101 Well, fair. But I feel like because he forces the mixed placement, he can't actually hit the notes unless it's as loud as it is. I can feel him desperately trying to be more delicate but it's just so grating.
100% Ripped off at the Oscars.
you're mad
He sounds like Abe Simpson at the end of
Why, why belting? It's like they let those actors do whatever they want
That's literally what they did for this movie. It was such a bad decision. Tom hooper basically said sing it how you want and the orchestra will work around it. He said that if the actors needed an extra second at any point they could take it which like defeats the point of like any song. He did the same in his soliloquy when he tears up the parole slip it's meant to be in time to the beat but because of Jackman basically free styling it and taking the extra breath where there shouldn't be and the fact they filmed it live and the orchestra where basically playing around it, it messed up so many bits of the music in the whole thing
Great commercial
3 speed up please
I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do is not very nice.
البؤساء فيلم في منتهى الروعه ❤
jesus this is painful to listen to
Is it really?
In the context of the film Hugh gives a great performance- he's an actor and comparing him to a professional singer is silly- still a moving moment in the film-
Couldn't agree more. I mean, don't get me wrong it's not terrible, but it ain't good.
I disagree
@@davej9 u must forget Hugh is a theatre guy first and foremost
😭😭😭😭😭
Over reliance on vibrato....It comes off as gimicky.
fully agree
I like it because I haven’t been ruined by musical theatre :)
He is not an opera singer and you should not expect such in musical theater
Hugh is not a singer, but I wish I could act as well as he can sing 😅
He’s actually a really great singer, when he’s in the correct vocal range. listen to Greatest Showman, he sounds incredible there.
Excruciating
You theatre nerds have been indroctinated in a sad way. This bops.
Real
No. This version is way to loud. The song is meant to start out soft. It only grows at the "he's like the son I might have known." It takes all the interest and beauty out of the song when theres no dynamics. That is the case with pretty much all music. His performance is good, but this song sucks.
@@calebleach7988 and? it sounds good to millions of people. You can't invalidate their subjective tastes in music
@@WHALEx3 true. But I can say that, objectively, this song is not sung the way it is supposed to be sung. Especially when the music underneath this version still builds the way it does in every other version.
@@calebleach7988 ok, happy new year
For an actor who played Wolverine in the X Men films not too bad - passable! Alfie Boe might have have given it gravitas but otherwise.. Very tolerable!
Um, Hugh Jackman (b. 1968) started out in musical theater in Australia. Then he transitioned to Hollywood in his early thirties. _X-Men_ (2000) was his breakout film that made him a household name. This role, however, is out of his singing range. Thus, he was miscast, especially since it's a sung-through musical.
@@VinMar-m6w I did - however - say! Tolerable! I didn't say 'brilliant' ! I also said passable! Again, not brilliant! He was, at least not flat with the music! But maybe incredibly rusty at the moment in time!
🤍
Not the best when compared to Colm or Alfie but decent enough film
bro, this fucking sucks, why he belting the falsetto song?
Bring them home 🇮🇱🇮🇱
i've been binge watching this song by all and sundry, sad to say Hugh should stick to acting, he sounds very amateurish. the worst yet.
hs is an amateur singer, geesh
@@catherinepruettpianist4971 he's paid for this part, therefore a professional singer, as i said, he should stick to acting.
Hugh Jackman is has a Tony award for best actor in a musical and an Olivier nomination for the same category but sure you’re the expert
@@idontcareaboutyouropinion8999 i couldn't give a stuff if he's got an oscar for singing, he still should stick to acting, and yes, i'm an expert on what i enjoy, it isn't Jackmans singing !!
Jackman is one of the worst "singers" I've ever heard.
No offense to Hugh Jackman but he is NOT capable of singing this part
It's because Tom Hooper had him SHOUT it instead of singing it quietly like it's supposed to be sung. Why he did this, I have no idea, as it's completely the opposite of how it's done on stage. Not only does Jackman sound horrible as he audibly strains to hit the notes, but why would Valjean be yelling when everyone around him is asleep?
@@Sueb18631 exactly, like who shouts when they pray?
this was painful to listen to